CSE Programming Team Won the Championship in the ACM-HK Programming
Contest 2011

CSE programming team comprised of CHEN Qifeng, LI Yuliang, and NG Tsz
Yeung led by Dr. Yi Ke won the championship in the ACM-HK Programming
Contest 2011.

Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsors
regional and international collegiate programming contests. They divide
the world into several regions. Each region has a number of regional
contests and only the top two or three teams in each regional contest
enter into the world finals. Since 1991, the ACM Hong Kong Chapter has
been organizing a local contest in Hong Kong, modeling after the ACM
contests in terms of objectives, format, and style.

This year, 8 local tertiary institutes participated in this contest
held on 16 July at the Caritas Institute of Higher Education. Each team
was assigned six programming problems. The teams tried to solve as many of
these problems as possible before the time limit. The team which correctly
solved the most problems in the shortest time was the champion. To solve
the problems, the teams have to combine a variety of algorithmic
techniques with quick-and-dirty programming tricks. After 4 hours of
intensive and competitive programming, the CSE team won the championship.